NYC — doing a special event August 31st in Soho. it's in collaboration with the @GRAMMYMuseum — i'll be performing an acoustic set and discussing the album-making process with @emilylazarlodge — Emily has mastered every LP I've produced going back to the first Vampire Weekend album in 2008. ask us anything— Ticket link here: grammymuseum.org/event/a-new…

“Hardy ft Clairo” started with a sample from the movie Day for Night (1973). In this video I breakdown the beatmaking process, and shine a light on working with some of my collaborators on the song: Clairo, Henry Solomon, and Hamilton Berry.

“I know the world will come apart.” The melody, chords, and lyrics all came to me at once. I wasn’t sure where these words came from but I think sometimes the beauty of writing a song is that you trust the words as they’re coming out of your mouth. This song is fun to play because the pedal steel is in from the first note. Usually pedal steel comes in and out of a song, I gave myself the challenge of writing a pedal steel part that runs throughout the whole song. When we started talking about doing a performance with La Blogoteque I thought it would be amazing to bring a Pedal Steel outside, plug it in to power somehow and have the rest of us acoustic. Watch it in full on Blogothèque's YouTube channel 🎬 youtu.be/pWsh02q1Ku4

“In A River” is one of my favorite songs but it didn’t come out on an album. It was the first song I wrote after my record Half-Light and it was the first song I wrote on a mandolin. It’s about a town in Massachusetts that does not have a river. It’s actually about a beach that fills up and empties out with water. In this one-take we got to capture a piece of Paris, a piece of sunset, the full song, and the dance of director Clara Griot weaving between the four of us on the roof. Watch it in full on Blogothèque's YouTube channel 🎬 youtu.be/OEoA3Xr9V2g?si=vDoN…

Ten years later, me and Hamilton Leithauser are hitting the road together playing ‘I Had A Dream That You Were Mine’ with a rocking band and some special guests we love. You’ll also get solo songs from each of us, so we’re calling it The Joint Tour. See you in November —

looks kinda like the guy from behind the dumpster in mulholland drive

Blonde is 10 years old tomorrow...

This logo makes it look like a paint bucket fell on the floor. It also looks like it says Mike RAGERS.

We need a simple federal law that bans all elected officials, their offices, and their political parties, from using AI to generate images or video of said officials in situations where they may fall sick or no longer be in the realm of the living. If Mitch McConnell is sick or gone it cannot be legal to use AI to convince the American people otherwise.

Instead of using your platform to say this nonsense, use your platform to publicly call out the Republican Party for using AI to generate a patently fake image of Mitch McConnell in the hospital. If you can’t do at least that much, please stop.

This is false. Look at what the Republican party has done for the last 30 years; they have pushed red seats redder and by doing so moved the center to the right. Also, the reason Democrats have lost so many seats is that centrist (“purple”) platforms have not inspired voters to vote .

‘American Stories: A Concert Film’ premieres tonight at 9pm EST on YouTube. Join me and director @antonymuse 30 minutes ahead of time for a livestream. Excited for you to see the film and we’ll chat a little about what went into it. And finally, the American Stories Tour kicks off tomorrow in San Diego! See you soon! Link to the YouTube premiere here: youtube.com/live/W7FKZ4zKXqk

excited to announce American Stories: A Concert Film will be premiering on YouTube on Tuesday at 9pm EST / 6pm PST — we’ll be doing a premiere with a livestream beforehand. so if you wanna join me on video chat, that’ll start a half-hour early, at 8:30 EST. ° —So what is American Stories: A Concert Film? It’s me and my incredible American Stories band playing songs for you live at the legendary Sound City Studio A: some new songs, some old songs —everything live, with no click tracks or backing tracks. It was directed by Antony Muse and shot by Russell Tandy. Very excited for you to experience it— also — our tour starts next week! Link to the YouTube premiere here: youtube.com/live/W7FKZ4zKXqk…

“Forgive is to Know” started with four chords that I wrote on a rubber bridge guitar leant to me by Ethan Gruska. The first lyrics that came were for the chorus, and they quote Alexander Pope, who wrote, in 1711, “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” • From there, I went on a journey writing verses. I probably spent a couple years writing the verses of this song and I wrote more than could fit in one song… and I did something that I rarely do which was to write about songwriting itself in those opening couplets. • Still my favorite line came to me as I was in the midst of recording vocals: “…that the institutions don’t reward the compassionate.”

American Stories was originally an eight song album. “To Feel No Way” was a song I’d started but didn’t know how to finish. Ultimately it’s one of two songs I finished writing with my friend Tobias Jesso Jr. I’m so happy we could come together on those two songs.